DEC 3000 trouble - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Aug 2001

Rumor has it that Francis. Javier Mesa may have mentioned these words:
...
 On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Tom Owad wrote: 
[snip]

...
   I power up the DEC, it does its whirling and
spinning
  up, but I never get anything at all on my
terminal.  I've tried booting
 with the S3 switch (whicdh I understand is supposed to change from kb/
 mouse/monitor to console mode) in both directions, but to no avail.

 The LED on the front reads "FD".  It's possible that the RAM I have
 installed (which I got from another DEC 3000) is not appropriate for the
 system. 
Putting RAM is also tricky, you need to put them in groups of 8 simms per
bank, all of the same type in each bank. A bank is defined by all the
simms at the same height (the model 600, which I am familiar with has the 
[snip]

I very well could be wrong here, but my DEC 3000/300 (desktop machine,
150Mhz Alpha, 64Meg RAM uses banks of 4 each standard 72-pin true parity
SIMMs... Were there any DEC 3000's that *required* 8 SIMMs in a bank? (or,
more accurately, are the DEC 3000/300's the only 3000's that need only 4
SIMMs per bank?)

Cheers,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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